The Maritime Family Practice Research Network (MaRNet-FP) was established in 2005 by the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. Directed by Dr. Wayne Putnam, its mission statement is:

1. to enable community family physicians to combine their relevant questions, skills and resources with the expertise and resources of academic family physicians to conduct primary care research and increase primary care research capacity.
2. to conduct and support primary care research in practice-based settings that addresses questions of importance to family medicine and improves health care delivery to, and the health status of, patients and their families. 
3. to assist in research skills development of family physicians who are part of this network.

            Current activities include a longitudinal study of hypertension in people with type 2 diabetes, support for two projects in development by community family physicians, and participation in CPCSSN.